⁴ Wealth adds many friends,
    but the poor will be left by his friends.

⁶ Many will seek favor before the generous,
    and everyone is the friend of a man of gifts.^[a]
7 All the brothers of the poor, if they hate him,
    how much more will his friends keep away from him.
    He pursues them with words, and they are gone.^[b]

² Rich and poor have much in common;
    Yahweh is the maker of all of them.

⁷ The rich will rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is a slave of the lender.^[a]

⁴ Do not tire in order to become rich;
    out of your understanding, may you desist.
⁵ Your eyes will alight^[a] on it, but there is nothing to it,
    for suddenly it will make for itself wings
    like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.

⁷ An appetite^[a] that is sated spurns honey,
    but to an appetite^[b] that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet.

⁶ Better to be poor and walking in one’s integrity
    than to be crooked of ways when one is rich.

⁸ He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury
    gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

¹¹ A man of wealth is wise in his own eyes,
    but the intelligent poor sees through him.

²⁰ A man of faithfulness has abundant blessings,
    but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished.
²¹ Showing partiality^[a] is not good,
    and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.
²² He who hurries for wealth is a man with an evil eye,^[b]
    but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.